Most popular kid in class.
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And the hits just keep on coming.
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Flynn and his ilk are always merely pushing buttons to achieve rhetorical effects, which they hope will lead to behavioral effects (people giving them votes, money, power). They care nothing about real meanings, good deeds, or living with grace.
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I’m wondering if this buffoon was one of the named.
Why couldn’t he simply go fishing?
At least 27 people were rescued by first responders on Saturday after becoming stranded on a large chunk of floating ice off Wisconsin’s Green Bay, authorities said. No injuries were reported among the group, many of whom had been ice fishing before the ice broke off from the shoreline. The Brown County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the 27 stranded people spent roughly 90 minutes adrift before being rescued. The agency added that a potential culprit for the “destabilization of the ice” may have been a barge traveling through the bay. A man on his first ice fishing expedition told local outlet WLUK-TV that the noise of the ice shove’s breakage sounded like a gun being fired. “We thought it was interesting, got out of our shanty, took a look and people were yelling on the ice, ‘We’re separating,’” he said.
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But he has been seen driving a golf cart.
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Bingo. That combined with the non stop bad news coming out of committee meetings with former staff etc. is the one-two punch to fat mans ego. He’s going down.
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Obligatory not-fair-to-Orangutans response.
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Rubio’s tweet on Friday clearly evoked the anti-Semitic trope that Jews control the media as he griped that the insurrection wasn’t like “Pearl Harbor or 9/11.”
Well, this is true. The insurrection was worse than Pearl Harbor and 9/11, because it was carried out by ‘patriots’ under the direction of the so-called President.
Rubio is such a fucking twit.
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I know, it’s cruel and not really fair. 
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Amen.
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And Darth Cheney came out of his spider hole last week to do a bit of mind fucking as well.
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There seem to be a couple of Republicans (Cheney and Kinzinger) who have realized that their names will be in history books, and decided they don’t want it to be under the entry for “Seditionists and Traitors.” I’m not going to claim Grisham is one of these–I’d never turn my back on her–but maybe she is drifting that way.
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There are people whom I would take with a grain of salt and would be prepared to be disappointed after comments like that. Raskin is not one of those people, so I feel somewhat hopeful that the committee has some damaging info.
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I am here in defense of the orangutan. They are noted for their intellect and empathy.
Orangutans are among the most intelligent non-human primates. Experiments suggest they can track the displacement of objects both visible and hidden.[70][71] Zoo Atlanta has a touch-screen computer on which their two Sumatran orangutans play games.[72] A 2008 study of two orangutans at the Leipzig Zoo showed orangutans can use “calculated reciprocity”, which involves weighing the costs and benefits of gift exchanges and keeping track of these over time. Orangutans are the first nonhuman species documented to do so.[73]
In a 1997 study, two captive adult orangutans were tested with the cooperative pulling paradigm. Without any training, the orangutans succeeded in pulling off an object to get food in the first session. Over the course of 30 sessions, the apes succeeded more quickly, having learned to coordinate.[74] An adult orangutan has been documented to pass the mirror test, indicating self-awareness.[75] Mirror tests with a 2-year-old orangutan failed to reveal self-recognition.[76]
Studies in the wild indicate that flanged male orangutans plan their movements in advance and signal them to other individuals.[77] Experiments have also suggested that orangutans can communicate about things that are not present, mother orangutans remain silent in the presence of a perceived threat but when it passes, the mother produces an alarm call to their offspring to teach them about the danger.[78] Orangutans and other great apes show laughter-like vocalisations in response to physical contact such as wrestling, play chasing or tickling. This suggests that laughter derived from a common origin among primate species and therefore evolved before the origin of humans.[79] Orangutans have also been found to have voluntary control over vocal fold oscillation, which is essential for speech in humans, and can learn and mimic new sounds.[69][80] Bonnie, an orangutan at the US National Zoo, was recorded spontaneously whistling after hearing a caretaker. She appears to whistle without expecting a food reward.[81]
They even have tool usage in their repertoire
Tool use in orangutans was observed by primatologist Birutė Galdikas in ex-captive populations.[82] Orangutans in Suaq Balimbing were recorded to develop a tool kit for use in foraging which consisted of both insect-extraction sticks for use in the hollows of trees and seed-extraction sticks for harvesting seeds from hard-husked fruit. The orangutans adjusted their tools according to the task at hand, and preference was given to oral tool use.[83][84] This preference was also found in an experimental study of captive orangutans.[85] Orangutans have been observed to jab at catfish with sticks, so that the panicked prey would flop out of ponds and into the ape’s waiting hands.[86][87] Orangutan have also been documented to save tools for future use.[88] When building a nest, orangutans appear to have some technical knowledge of construction and choose branches they know can support their body weight.[89].
There is far more there. I did not see anything about planning insurrections and running away from reality. As a thinking creature they are head and shoulders above the one we frequently call the orange orangutan. I think that needs to be put to rest and recognize that our next Uber driver might be an orangutan.
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Rubio is a man in his forties with the callowness of a young boy. I honestly don’t see what his supporters see in him.
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When Vader shows up for your side, something is seriously wrong with the force.
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Maybe the best the GOP can do in 2024 is to nominate one.
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Aaaand the visual…
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She’s ecstatic
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Face it, you know the orangutan will be a democrat for all the qualities referenced above.
Unlike the weird individual I ran into last night at Walgreens. Trump for sure, blathering his nonsense for no reason, just out of the blue. Felt sorry for the cashier.
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